Save The Slugs

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Inspiration

Our inspiration pulled from the blue light system located on UC campuses. Students feeling unsafe should have access to emergency from a click of a button without having to located a blue light to be saved.

What it does

Save Our Slugs (SOS) provides instant access to police contact and messaging, along with discreet audio-visual recording for emergencies.

How we built itn

Being our first hackathon, we decided to challenge ourselves by learning a new programming language called DART. Utilizing flutter we learned how to create a whole app that utilized permissions and APIs that use SMS data.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into multiple challenges, we struggled with implementing the SMS system, file management, even setting up Flutter. We continuously had to relearn topics and pull and push thousands of iterations of code. Calling, texting all caused problems that at some point broke all of our code.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We feel accomplished in learning a new language that can be used on via Android and IOS. We are also proud that the app can access permissions on a device that register data to communicate with the authorities, and/or emergency contact.

What we learned

We learned that flutter and DART are used to create a multi access OS system that translates DART into Swift and C++. We also learned how to access multiple data files and terminal passage keys to collaborate on a Github repo.